Are you a lefty or a righty?

Fruitbat · Aug 22, 2011

It is my guesstimate that more of your creative types, aka fiction writers, are left-handed than right-handed.

No, make that a higher percentage are left-handed than the percentage of the general population that is left-handed.

So, how about a sampling here, and then we'll count them up and check?

P.S. I don't have to make sense, I'm a Fruitbat.

Fruitbat · Aug 22, 2011

Lefty here.

Perks · Aug 22, 2011

Make a poll for this thread. It'll be easier to see the results.

Chris P · Aug 22, 2011

Righty all the way. My left side is completely ornamental. I only keep it because I'd look funny without it.

scarletpeaches · Aug 22, 2011

I'm righty, and always right.

KellyAssauer · Aug 22, 2011

ambi

(can't do a damn thing with either hand)

Fruitbat · Aug 22, 2011

Thanks, Perks.

Poll is started, please "vote."

*Your screen name will show along with your choice.

Also, does anybody know a solid source for what percentage of the population actually is left-handed?

Perks · Aug 22, 2011

According to wikipedia, about 10% of the general population are lefties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handedness

DeleyanLee · Aug 22, 2011

I was born right-handed, but suffered an injury on my right hand about 20 years ago which forced me to become more ambi. I answered right-handed because that's what's natural.

KellyAssauer · Aug 22, 2011

*methinks bat forgot the: 'As co-ordinated as an eggplant' & 'Use Orlando Bloom as handmaiden' answer options... or was it the other way 'round? Heck, I can never remember, that whole week is a blur...*

pdblake · Aug 22, 2011

Righty, but I can weld with both hands

sheadakota · Aug 22, 2011

Lefty here- I am in my right mind-

Perks · Aug 22, 2011

For the ambidextrous among us, do you have to consider which hand to use when writing your grocery list? If the pen and paper is directly in front of you, which hand do you pick it up with?

Snitchcat · Aug 22, 2011

Ambi.

I usually pick up the pen with the right, but if I'm feeling that lazy (and I'm on a certain side of the table), I'll use my left.

Btw, does this extend to switching knife and fork, as well as using chopsticks?

Chris1981 · Aug 22, 2011

Righty here. But I type with both hands.

AVS · Aug 22, 2011

I write with a pen that's superglued to my nose. It keeps the concentration levels high and it's the only way to be sure.

More mundanely when I'm plucking feathers from rabbits I use my right hand.

COchick · Aug 22, 2011

Righty here.

Vito · Aug 22, 2011

right-handed

Haggis · Aug 22, 2011

There's a reason the Latin word for left handedness is "sinister."

cray · Aug 22, 2011

http://owenroe.com/wines.php?p=10

On this label the family crest depiction of a severed left hand tells the story of a rowing competition among the O'Neill's & the O'Reilly's (Owen Roe was an O'Neill). Whoever touched land first after rowing across the lake was rewarded with the land he touched. Lagging behind, one of the kinsfolk grabs his sword to cleave his hand and pitches it ashore to touch land first. He won the land and eventually ruled over it as king.

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shyne · Aug 22, 2011

urbanmum · Aug 22, 2011

Ambi. But I was one of those kids that was "encouraged" to write with the right when I started school so it has become a habit to use the right when picking up a pen.

Alpha Echo · Aug 22, 2011

Perks said:
For the ambidextrous among us, do you have to consider which hand to use when writing your grocery list? If the pen and paper is directly in front of you, which hand do you pick it up with?

I'm kinda ambidextrous, but not really.

I write left-handed, but I do everything else right-handed. Well, I eat with either hand. But sports, driving, using scissors or knives, shooting my gun...all right-handed.

I have no idea what that means.

Maryn · Aug 22, 2011

There was no option for me. I'm mostly a leftie, so that's how I voted, but certain tasks I can do only with my right hand, like scissoring. (I can't make left-handed scissors work any better than the next person, who's probably right-handed.) I sew with my right, and can't throw with either--both feel wrong.

Maryn, misfit

Jessianodel · Aug 22, 2011

I'm a righty, although I've always wanted to teach myself to use my left as well. It's just super hard

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